Understanding Your White Blood Cell Count (WBC) - What's Normal?

Question
Dear Dr.
I'm 36 years old, i made several medical testing of CBC for 8 years ago. Usually the value of WBC count is less than 4000 (it around 3000-3200. i do not suffer from unusual behavior of illness so it is normal issue or need more testing. kindly advice

Answer
Mahmoud,

At age 36 even if you are in general good health it is recommended that at least every two years you obtain a CBC, Complete Metabolic Profile (Electrolytes, Renal and Liver studies).  Also screening tests for diabetes (Glucose and HbA1c) and Lipids (Cholesterol, etc.) should be checked.  As you get older you may need your PSA (prostate), and other tests run TSH (Thyroid).

Those are the general recommendations for health screening but if you want advanced screening... then I would recommend as I do for all my patients 35 years and older:  Check out the panels you can have run for best health prevention and maintenance at www.MyHDL.com.

Here is a PowerPoint presentation of what my Preventive Medicine center offers:  http://docsaleeby.blogspot.com/2013/09/priority-health-dr-y-m-saleeby-overview.h

I hope this answers your questions.

JP